Personalized Politics: An Experimental Analysis of How Perceptions about Political Leaders Shape Refugees’ Political Trust

• In Event: Perceptions of Political Elites

Brief Overview

We test our hypothesis that refugees use evaluations of the character of political leaders to determine their political trust using an original survey experiment administered to a sample of Bhutanese refugees resettled in Michigan.

Authors

• Hannah Paul, University of Missouri

• Prakash Adhikari, Central Michigan University

• Wendy L. Hansen, University of New Mexico